Opinion

Unacceptable behaviour In recent months there has been a consistent effort on the part of the RMOW to portray the residents of the SLRD as freeloading parasites sucking the blood from Whistler taxpayers.

Not that anybody sane really wants a new operating system and office software suite for Christmas, but there’s definitely a problem with Microsoft announcing shipping dates for Vista and Office for January of 2007.

My father just turned 80 this summer. Outdoorsman, Olympian and ski resort visionary, Gaby (as his friends call him) doesn’t get out on the slopes much anymore.

At the end of a short week that began with Labour Day, Immigration Minister Monte Solberg is to meet with Whistler business people to hear their concerns about staffing and how his ministry may be able to help alleviate an aspect of the local labour

Some facts of life in Whistler This letter is kind of reaction to the one about the dog beach incident at Lost Lake (Pique letters Aug.

One of the inspirations for Whistler passed away a week and a half ago at his summer home in Rhode Island. Alex Cushing, the founder and chairman of Squaw Valley Resort, was 92.

"The single biggest challenge for Whistlerites," says veteran resort professional Lorne Borgal, "is accepting that the time has come to make fundamental changes.

Once upon a time my parents bought me a remote- controlled R2D2 robot that crawled about an inch a minute across the kitchen linoleum, turning its head and making all those "bleep bloop bleep" sounds that won over legions of young Star Wars

How ‘desperate’ are we? I read the article "Whistler ‘desperate’ for workers" (Pique News, Aug.

At what cost the right decision? The final chapter in the excruciatingly painful and drawn out Olympic Sledge Hockey Arena soap opera can finally be written. Like any good story, it kept us on the edge of our seats until the final page.